As Tiger Woods began promoting his $9 million winner-take-all match with Phil Mickelson, he assured the world he had been in Lefty's head for 20 years and insinuated he'd be there again Friday.
But by the end of one of golf's longest days, Tiger finally had been exorcised from Mickelson's psyche.
The pay-per-view audience likely will remember this match-play marathon mostly for lasting 22 holes and finishing on a 93-yard sudden-death hole that the two played not once, not twice, but three times. Mickelson ended the proceedings by sinking a seven-figure putt from four feet, while Tiger missed his last chance from eight feet.